User`s guide

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Development Studio
Overview
This chapter describes the CodeWarrior™ IDE and explains application development
using the IDE. This chapter contains these sections:
• CodeWarrior IDE
• Development Process
If you are an experienced CodeWarrior IDE user, you will recognize the look and feel
of the user interface. However, you must become familiar with the DSP56800E
runtime software environment.
CodeWarrior IDE
The CodeWarrior IDE lets you create software applications. It controls the project
manager, the source-code editor, the class browser, the compiler, linker, and the
debugger.
You use the project manager to organize all the files and settings related to your
project. You can see your project at a glance and easily navigate among source-code
files. The CodeWarrior IDE automatically manages build dependencies.
A project can have multiple build targets. A build target is a separate build (with its
own settings) that uses some or all of the files in the project. For example, you can
have both a debug version and a release version of your software as separate build
targets within the same project.
The CodeWarrior IDE has an extensible architecture that uses plug-in compilers and
linkers to target various operating systems and microprocessors. The CodeWarrior CD
includes a C compiler for the DSP56800E family of processors. Other CodeWarrior
software packages include C, C++, and Java compilers for Win32, Mac
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OS, Linux,
and other hardware and software combinations.
The IDE includes: